Author: Feng Yuanhua

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The semi-finals officially ended. The Chinese team easily won the first place in the group with 3 wins from 3 games.

In Asia, there are really not many teams that can bring enough pressure to the Chinese team.

What is a little surprising is that the second place in the group is actually the Lebanese team.

I don’t know if it was because of the match with the Huaxia team that the Ren and Du meridians were opened, and he seemed to have awakened.

Facing two strong Asian teams, Japan and Huaxia Wanwan, Lebanon overcame the danger and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

However, Lebanon's strength is not bad, especially the successful planning of American Joe Howard.

A sufficiently good outside player with strong scoring ability can achieve good results in Asia.

This is also the reason why more and more Asian national teams are planning players later.

In another group, although the South Korean team performed poorly, they still won the first place in the group.

There is no way. In recent Asian basketball competitions, South Korea is still on the same level as the Chinese team.

The whole of Asia, that is, the Korean team can really threaten the Chinese team.

In addition to the South Korean team, the second place in the group was also a West Asian team, Syria.

In the past few years, in Asian basketball competitions, East Asian teams have always been stronger.

However, with the attention of West Asian teams, this situation will change step by step.

Again, the physical quality of West Asian teams is obviously stronger than that of East Asian teams.

But, for the Chinese team, it’s the same!

After finishing the group stage and the rematch, 6 games in 6 days, I finally had a day off.

After a short day of adjustments, the semifinals began.

Before 16:00 on the 27th, the entire Huaxia team came to the arena early in the morning.

In addition to them, the Syrian team also came.

After the match between the South Korean team and Lebanon, there is the match between the Chinese team and Syria.

At the beginning of the game, it was Joe Howard who took the lead and opened the scoring for the Lebanese team.

It can be seen that Joe Howard's physical talent is very obvious. It is difficult for the Korean team to restrict him in one-on-one defense.

This requires the help of the Korean team's insiders, but the Korean team's insiders have no advantage when facing Lebanon.

Not only that, the Korean team seemed very anxious during the game and often made hasty shots.

What's even worse is that when the shot is not scored, the anxiety increases sharply, making the shot even more unreliable.

At this time, Lebanon has every opportunity to expand the score.

It's a pity that they didn't seize the opportunity, and Joe Howard fell into a singles situation.

This means you can't see yourself clearly. You think you are Wang Hao, and Wang Hao doesn't dare to play singles all the time!

The Korean team's perimeter found an opportunity and after two consecutive three-pointers, the situation was stabilized.

In this way, the scores of both sides increased alternately, and the anxious situation continued until the end.

It has to be said that both sides' offense was a bit poor.

At the end, Lebanon led by 1 point and simply took the initiative to use foul tactics.

The South Korean team's three-pointers are still very scary to them.

There was no other way. The South Korean team could only use foul tactics. Naturally, the final result could not be changed.

In the final analysis, the foul tactic is to expect the opponent to miss the free throw and leave the decision-making power to the opponent.

Obviously, the Lebanese team did not perform badly today.

73:72

With just one point difference, the Korean team finally lost the game and missed the opportunity to enter the finals.

It is said that before leaving the game, the head coach of the Korean team had already exploded and cursed the referee's performance during the game.

In fact, this is also true. The two West Asian referees did show signs of favoring Lebanon in their penalty decisions.

However, it is still a question of strength.

If the South Korean team can score 16 three-pointers in a single game like they did in the group stage, they will naturally win.

Around 19 o'clock, the second semi-finals arrived as scheduled.

The Chinese team still uses the previous starting lineup, with Li Xiaoyong partnering with Hu Weidong in the backcourt, the twin towers of Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi occupying the inside, and Wang Hao as the organizational forward.

The starting lineup for Syria is Ferras Hamwi, Mohamed Dimmai, Mohamed Almoussad, Michel Madani, Kalala Youmez.

As soon as the game started, Yao Ming succeeded in trying to get a position in a deep position. Wang Hao, with quick eyes and quick hands, immediately sent the pass.

Yao Ming did not live up to his expectations. He turned around and hooked the ball easily into the basket.

Like other West Asian teams, Syria also likes to take advantage of physical confrontation to gain opportunities inside.

It's a pity that unlike other Asian teams, the Chinese team is not worried at all when faced with this tactic.

The Syrian forward wanted to use his body to squeeze inside and create a scoring opportunity at the basket. Yao Ming directly sent him a big pot.

From the first minute of the game, the Chinese team firmly held the score advantage.

Moreover, this advantage is still expanding.

At the end of the half, the point difference between the two sides had widened to nearly 20 points.

At this point in the game, there is not much suspense.

There is no way, the Syrian team's offensive methods are really restrained by Yao Ming.

At the end of the half game, he had sent out 5 big blocks.

In this game, Yao Ming scored 17 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 7 blocks, becoming the joint best player in the game.

Besides Yao Ming, the other best player is naturally Wang Hao.

Of course, Wang Hao's performance was not bad, but he didn't have a strong desire to attack.

That's right, since you can win easily, there is no need to play hard.

12 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, a standard poor version of a triple-double, and also Wang Hao's first triple-double in the national team.

In this Asian Championship, Wang Zhizhi's performance was actually average.

I don’t know if it’s because after entering the NBA, my mind is somewhat focused on the NBA, or if there are other reasons.

Or maybe, seeing that the national team's results were very good, he didn't have much desire to attack.

The performance of 12 points and 7 rebounds in this game is actually a microcosm of Wang Zhizhi's performance in this Asian Championship.

94:55

With such a huge point difference, it really doesn't look like a semi-final at all, but more like a group stage.

As a result, the final teams of this Asian Championship have been announced, which is the Chinese team and Lebanon.

As a result, the attention is even higher.

There is no way, after all, in the rematch, the performance of the Chinese team and Lebanon was shocking overseas.

Now that the two teams meet again in the finals, who knows if sparks will break out again.

However, this is obviously impossible.

The Asian Basketball Federation cannot just watch, and the Chinese Basketball Federation and the Lebanese Basketball Federation will not allow this to happen.

No, just after the game, when we returned to the locker room, the team leader's first words were:

In the finals, no one can make any mistakes.

Not only them, but the Lebanese side was probably also warned that all parties would not allow such a thing to happen again.

Wang Fei chose to take Yao Ming to the press conference.

Why not Wang Hao?

Because Wang Fei also discovered that even though this guy is the youngest, he is actually restless.

When Wang Hao is brought to the press conference, some people may ask, is he going to fight with the bench?

On July 28th, there was only one night's rest, and the next day was the time for the finals.

Of course, before the finals, there will be qualifying matches and the third and fourth place finals.

The South Korean team easily won against Syria, its old rival in the rematch, and retained its third place.

However, it doesn't make much sense.

You know, before the start of the Asian Championships, the Korean team has been clamoring that their goal is to win the championship.
To be continued...